Edipan Edipus

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~ EDIPIAN  from EDIPUS WHO STANDS FOR
           FATAL INEVITABLE or HOPELESS   sug> DESTINY
     id+ FATALISM     INEVITABLE DEATH IS PART OF LIFE
         as in PRINCIPLE or BELIEF IN FATAL FATE
     opp to JOBIAN JONIANIS from JOB as in the BIBLE or
     DOGMA or BELIEF in DIVINE or SUPERNATURAL JUSTICE
     id+ EDIPIAN AND JOBIAN REPRESENT A FUNDAMENTAL
         DICHOTOMY ABOUT THE " MEANING OF LIFE "
     sc> OPPOSITE VIEWS or JOBIAN vs EDIPIAN ARE FOUND
         EVEN AMONG PRIMITIVE TRIBES LIVING NEAR EACH OTHER
     SUCH CONTRASTS SHOW AN IMPORTANT CARDINAL HUMAN DICHOTOMY
     hx> THE EDIPIAN VIEW IS THAT FATE
         IS BLIND AND HOPELESS                sug> FATALISM
     ply> | MAN IS A VICTIM OF HIS DESTINY |  sug> CRUEL
           the above is TRACED TO SOPHOCLES and
           his AEDIPUS  see below
     SUCH TRAGIC CONCEPT OF FATE IS FOUND IN
     gr  MOIRA MOERA or
         MOIRAE  = DESTINY
         LACHESIS  LOT or in           sug> LOTTERY
     lat LOT       PERSONAL SHARE OR LOT OF DESTINY
         FATE      FATE or FORTUNE    sug> FATALISM
     note CONTRAST WITH THE VIEW GIVEN BY JOB
          it concerns DIVINE JUSTICE and therefore HOPE
     id+ THE JEWISH RELIGION and its derivatives
         CHRISTIANITY and MAHOMETANISM
     CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH OFFERS OF HOPE
     in contrast to a VIEW OF DEATH AS THE
     ULTIMATE DESTINY OFFERED BY STOIC AND THE
     EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHIES
           ply> | POPULAR VIEWS reside in
                  POPULAR RELIGIONS |   see> ~ SOCIETY
~ EDIPUS   AEDIPUS or OEDIPUS
           A PROTAGONIST OF A TRAGEDY
  myth> EDIPUS WAS THE SON OF LAIOS & JOKASTE
        LAIOS WAS THE SON OF LABKAKOS KIN GOF THEBES AND
  JOKASTA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MENOIKEUS
  AN ORACLE TOLD LAIOS THAT OEDIPUS UPON REACHING MANHOOD
  WOULD CAUSE HIS DEATH WHICH LED LAIOS
  TO ORDER THE NEWBORN OEDIPOS TO BE LEFT NAKED
  TO PERISH ON MOUNT KITHAERON BUT AEDIPUS WAS FOUND BY
  A HERDSMAN AND TAKEN TO CORINTH WHERE
  KING POLYBOS AND HIS CHILDLESS WIFE RAISED HIM
  LATER OEDIPOS INQUIRED FROM AN ORACLE
  ABOUT HIS PARENTAGE AND WAS TOLD TO AVOID
  THE LANDS OF HIS ANCESTORS SINCE OTHERWISE
  HE WOULD CAUSE THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER AND
  MARRY HIS OWN MOTHER
  FEAR THAT HIS FATHER MIGHT BE POLYBOS HE LEFT CORINTH
  WHILE WANDERING THE COUNTRY HE MET HIS FATHER LAIOS AND
  SLEW HIM
  LATER HE ARRIVED AT THEBES TO FIND
  GREAT DISTRESS CAUSED BY A MONSTER SPHINX WHICH HAD
  A BODY OF A LION EXCEPT FOR THE HEAD BREAST AND
  ARMS WHICH WERE THOSE OF A WOMAN
  THE SPHINX HAD A RIDDLE FOR THOSE THAT APPROACHED HER
  AEDIPUS READ THE RIDDLE RIGHT WHICH CAUSED THE
  SPHINX TO CAST HERSELF INTO THE ABYSS
  THE PRIZE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD SUCCEED IN
  GETTING RID OF THE SPHINX WAS THE HAND OF JOKASTE
  WIDOW OF LAIOS AND MOTHER OF AEDIPUS AND SO
  AEDIPUS MARRIED HIS MOTHER AND
  FULFILLED THE PROPHECY BY THE ORACLE
  AEDIPUS & JOKASTE HAD TWO SONS NAMED
  ETEOKLES AND POLYNEIKES AND
  TWO DAUGHTERS NAMED ANTIGONE AND ISMENE
  ONLY AFTER OEDIPUS & JOKASTE INQUIRED OF
  THE ORACLE ABOUT MISFORTUNES THAT HAD DESCENDED
  UPON THEIR LAND DID THEY DISCOVER THAT
  THEY WERE MOTHER AND SON
  JOKASTE SLEW HERSELF WHILE
  OEDIPOS AFTER PUTTING OUT HIS EYES FORSOOK THEBES AND
  WANDERED ABOUT ACCOMPANIED BY
  HIS FAITHFUL DAUGHTER ANTIGONE
  HIS SONS SUCCEEDED HIM BUT
  THEY QUARRELED AND ULTIMATELY KILLED EACH OTHER
  THIS TRAGEDY IS THE SUBJECT OF POEMS AND WRITINGS BY
  AESCHYLUS or ESCHYLUS AS WELL AS BY SOPHOCLES  SENECA
  APOLLODUORUS  EURIPIDES AND OTHERS
  art> often TWO FALLEN WARRIORS SERVE TO DEPICT
       THE SONS OF OEDIPUS ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES
  BOTH BROTHERS COVETED THE THRONE OF THEBES AND
  BOTH FELL IN THE BATTLE FOR IT
  Jean A D INGRES [#] 1780-1867 PAINTED IN 1808
  AEDIPUS CONFRONTING THE SPHINX and one version is
  AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN LONDON
  hx>  SEVERAL SCHOLARS incl Immanuel VELIKOVSKY [#] in
       "Oedipus and Akhnaton" propose that
  OEDIPUS IS A MYTH OF EGYPTIAN ORIGIN
  note THE EGYPTIAN CITY OF THEBES known as NO AMON to
  denote RESIDENCE OF AMON
  THEBES WAS AN ANCIENT MAGNIFICENT EGYPTIAN CAPITAL
  note THE TEMPLES OF LUXOR AND KARNAK
       LUXOR WAS BUILT BY AMENHOTEP III or HARIM of AMON
  HE WAS FOLLOWED BY AMENHOTEP IV or AKHNATON [#]
  SOME PROPOSE THAT A RELIGIOUS REFORM STARTED UNDER
  AKHNATON AND APPARENTLY THIS REFORM MAY
  HAVE BEEN ORIENTED TOWARD MONOTHEISM
  note  SOME CALLED AKHNATON THE "FIRST PROPHET"
        AKHNATON LEFT THEBES FOR HIS NEWLY BUILT
  CAPITAL AKHET ATON WHERE THE FAMOUS
  PAINTED HEAD OF NEFRETETE [#] WAS FOUND
  note THEBES the CAPITAL OF BEOTIA IN GREECE
       both cities relate to A SPHINX
  THE GREEK THEBES WAS FOUNDED BY CADMUS WHO CAME
      FROM PHOENICIA
  note MANY SUSTAIN THAT OEDIPUS AND AKHNATON WERE ONE PERSON
       A POINT NOT REALIZED BY Sigmund FREUD [#] WHO
  ELABORATED ON BOTH PERSONAGES  see> OEDIPUS COMPLEX below
  med> EDIPISM can denote SELF INFLICTION OF EYE INJURIES
       EDIPUS COMPLEX may denote SEXUAL PERVERSION OF A SON
  LUSTING AFTER HIS MOTHER                       sug> FREUD
  note AKHNATON [#] MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM LIPODYSTROPHY
       AN AFFECTION CHARACTERIZED BY THE GRADUAL
  DISAPPEARANCE OF SUBCUTANEOUS FAT FROM UPPER BODY PARTS
  AND A MARKED INCREASE OF THE ADIPOSE TISSUE BELOW THE WAIST
  SUCH A DISORDER IS RARE AND IS SEEN MOSTLY IN FEMALES
  AKHNATON IS SHOWN WITH SWOLLEN THIGHS
  OEDIPUS IS SOWN WITH SWOLLEN FEET
  biol> see> OEDIPUS